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New York Law Journal

Two Supervising Judges Named Judicial Co-Chairs of NY Access-to-Justice Panel

Chief Judge Rowan Wilson said Judges Christina Ryba and Shahabuddeen A. Ally had been appointed to the roles.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Senate Confirms Assistant U.S. Attorney to California Federal Court

Veteran prosecutor Kirk Sherriff joins an Eastern District court hard-hit by heavy caseloads and frequent judicial vacancies in recent years.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Debating Potential Changes to Judicial Nomination Commission Should Not Delay Filling Vacancies

Assuming no change in circumstances between now and March 31, there will be six total commission seats to fill as of that date, the president of the New York City Bar Association writes. Failure to do so will impede the state's ability to fill a vacancy on the Court of Appeals.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Lawyers Call 5th Circuit AI Proposal Vague, Potential Threat to Work-Product Privilege

The appeals court would require attorneys who used AI in drafting a filing to certify that the citations, legal analysis and any other text have "been reviewed for accuracy and approved by a human."
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judge Sued for Working Too Slowly: Hundreds of Motions Pending

"It is unfortunate that my clients have been forced to take these issues to the Superior Court of Fulton County and incur unnecessary expenses," said petitioner counsel William R. Story.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Clash of Titans: Manhattan DA Morgenthau v. Chief Judge Cooke

A Law Journal columnist recounts legendary Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's one-time clash with a New York chief judge.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Judiciary's Budget Prioritizes Boost for Family Courts, 'Reset' With Legislature

Zayas said that while the court system had statewide coordinating judges for matrimonial matters and drug treatment, it never had one for family court matters until he appointed Judge Richard Rivera to the post, with a mandate to reduce backlogs.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Post-Pandemic Rise in High-Dollar Verdicts Shows Signs of Sticking

For the third year in a row, court data shows, Philadelphia juries were around twice as likely to award verdicts of $1 million or higher than they were in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Service of Process, E-Filing Tech Provider Proof Technologies Announces $30.4 Million Investment

Proof, which offers an app that aims to make service of process and e-filing more efficient, plans to leverage the series B investment for a number of enhancements, including streamlining case initiation.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Why Lawyers Will Survive the Onset of Generative AI—and How They'll Affect Who Won't

If user inputs are used to train models such as ChatGPT, can lawyers input their clients confidential information when generating motions, briefs or patent applications? How does scraped data used to train AI co-exist with the right to be forgotten? And when it comes to filing patents and copyrights for works produced by AI, who owns it?
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